Great books of the Western World
By: Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago. [Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief.]
Contributors: Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-; Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.; University of Chicago.
Edition: Founders' ed.
Publisher: W. Benton
Place of publication: Chicago]
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Literature  -- Collections.; Literature  -- Indexes.
Notes: General t.p. in vol. 1 only: each vol. has special t.p.

Includes bibliographies.

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Table of contents: value: 1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.; value: 2-3. The great ideas.; value: 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.; value: 5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.; value: 6. Herodotus. Thucydides.; value: 7. Plato.; value: 8-9. Aristotle.; value: 10. Hippocrates. Galen.; value: 11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.; value: 12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.; value: 13. Virgil.; value: 14. Plutarch.; value: 15. Tacitus.; value: 16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.; value: 17. Plotinus.; value: 18. Augustine.; value: 19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.; value: 21. Dante.; value: 22. Chaucer.; value: 23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.; value: 24. Rabelais.; value: 25. Montaigne.; value: 26-27. Shakespeare.; value: 28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.; value: 29. Cervantes.; value: 30. Francis Bacon.; value: 31. Descartes. Spinoza.; value: 32. John Milton.; value: 33. Pascal.; value: 34. Newton. Huygens.; value: 35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.; value: 36. Swift. Sterne.; value: 37. Henry Fielding.; value: 38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.; value: 39. Adam Smith.; value: 40-41. Gibbon.; value: 42. Kant.; value: 43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill.; value: 44. Boswell.; value: 45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.; value: 46. Hegel.; value: 47. Goethe.; value: 48. Melville.; value: 49. Darwin.; value: 50. Marx.- -51. Tolstoy.; value: 52. Dostoevsky.; value: 53. William James.; value: 54. Freud.